"And now, tell me, for which of my bad qualities did you first fall in love with me? Prince Don Pedro asks one more time if maybe they should tell him, but Leonato says no way. And he seems very brave. CLAUDIO, aside to Prince.
I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me because I have railed so long against marriage, but doth not the appetite alter? What symptoms, my lord? I love Benedick well, and I could wish he would modestly examine himself to see how much he is unworthy so good a lady. He would make but a sport of it and torment the poor lady worse. I am fond of Benedick, and I wish he would examine himself humbly and see how undeserving he is of that good lady. Fool in shakespeare's much ado about nothing. Isn't it strange that strings made of sheep's guts can draw men's souls from their bodies? There's a double meaning in that. LEONATO O, when she had writ it and was reading it. Oh, my lord, when wisdom and emotion are at war within a tender young person, it's ten to one that emotion will be victorious. I swear, that's good song. My daughter tells us all.
Nay, pray thee, come, Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument, Do it in notes. I hate to see him let such a worthy woman slip away. Yes, even though I love him, I still would mock him! "Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it. O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice To slander music anymore than once. Fool in shakespeare much ado about nothing. Those claiming supposed anachronisms as goofs, therefore, have rather missed the point. If she should make tender of her love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it, for the man, as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit.
I say "technically" because this storyline often has to take second place to the sub-plot about the wooing of Beatrice and Benedick. She must be rich, that's for sure, and wise—or else I'll have nothing to do with her. Maybe she's only pretending. No fear shakespeare much ado about nothing. He used to speak plainly and to the point, like an honest man and a soldier. Well, I'd rather listen to a plain hunting horn any day, when all's said and done. The most criticised of the American stars seems to have been Keanu Reeves. Hero thinks surely she will die, for she says she will die if he love her not, and she will die ere she make her love known, and she will die if he woo her rather than she will bate one breath of her accustomed crossness. Happy are they that hear their detractions and can put them to mending. Sing no more ditties, sing no mo Of dumps so dull and heavy.
Things are so bad that Hero worries Beatrice might even hurt herself—that's how deeply tormented she is by her secret love for Benedick. "Men from children nothing differ. CLAUDIO Never tell him, my lord, let her wear it out. There was never counterfeit of passion came so near the life of passion as she discovers it. PRINCE He doth indeed show some sparks that are like 190. It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in. I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love— and such a man is Claudio. When they're out of earshot of Benedick, Don Pedro says that they've got to get the girls to perform the same trick on Beatrice. I must not seem proud. There was that old "Midsummer Night's Dream" from the thirties and Derek Jarman's rather eccentric version of "The Tempest", but generally the cinema took the view that the comedies were best left to the theatre and television. How still the evening is, As hushed on purpose to grace harmony! Will sarcastic remarks, old sayings, and verbal ammunition from books keep a man from pursuing his desire? And it's especially amazing that she should fall in love with Sir Benedick, whom she's always seemed to hate, judging from all her outward behavior. Enter Benedick alone.
Her heart might give out first. Well, a horn for my money, when all's done. —I did never think that lady would have loved any man. Mischief surely can't hide itself in such a respectable old man. Thus we had Olivier's trilogy of "Henry V", "Richard III" and "Hamlet", Welles's "Othello" and "Macbeth", Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet", Heston's "Antony and Cleopatra" (something of a rarity, but still worth seeing) and the Brando/Mason/Gielgud version of "Julius Caesar". When he's done, Benedick says that if a dog had made that kind of noise, someone would have hanged it.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. This stirring theme fits the mood of the film perfectly. Aside to LEONATO] Let there be the same net spread for her, and that must your daughter and her gentlewomen carry. I will go get her picture. CLAUDIO He is a very proper man. In fact, Benedick says to himself, Beatrice is a great girl. What purpose would that serve? She doth indeed, my daughter says so, and the ecstasy hath so much overborne her that my daughter is sometime afeared she will do a desperate outrage to herself. The one actor I did not like was Michael Keaton who over-acts frantically in a weird accent as the drunken constable Dogberry, but even he did not spoil the film for me. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than. If I don't love her, I'm totally hard-hearted. That's the scene that I would see, which will be merely a dumb show. It were good that Benedick knew of it by some other, if she will not discover it.
Well, we'll hear more about this from your daughter. So don't cry like that, but let them go, And be carefree and happy, Changing all your sad songsInto "Hey, nonny nonny. And if he breaks the peace, then he ought to enter into a quarrel with appropriate fear and trembling. I would have put aside all other considerations and made her my wife. No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. The talk then turns to whether they should tell Benedick about Beatrice's secret love for him.
Prince Don Pedro keeps saying he can't believe it, but Leonato insists it's true. Both were practised Shakespearean actors, and they speak their lines with great clarity and simplicity, bringing out all the humour and drama in their parts. What was it you told me of 95. They sy I will bear myself proudly if I perceive the love come from her. 'They maintained such a well organised state of evil that they wouldn't allow any good quality to intermingle with them".
As water in a sieve: give not me counsel; Nor let no comforter delight mine ear. Enter Prince, Leonato, Claudio, and Balthasar. Shakespeare's comedies were less common in the cinema, probably because so much Shakespearean humour is based either upon puns and wordplay which worked better in Elizabethan English than they do in the modern language or upon topical references to the events of the 1590s and 1600s, lost upon today's audiences. "Shall I, " says she, "that have so oft encountered him with scorn, write to him that I love him? Now is his soul ravished. PRINCE I would she had bestowed this dotage on me. BALTHASAR And an ill singer, my lord. The fraud of men was ever so, Since summer first was leavy.
CLAUDIO Hero thinks surely she will die, for she says. He says he would believe the whole conversation was a trick, except the old, venerable Leonato participated in the conversation, so it must've been legitimate. Hath she made her affection known to Benedick? Benedick declares he'll love Beatrice, because to not love her would make him stingy, although he uses a racial slur to communicate that idea. To LEONATO so that only he can hear] Bait the hook well; this fish is about to bite. If she should make tender of. To LEONATO so that only he can hear] Make sure your daughter and her servants set the same trap for Beatrice.